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The season 5 of Indian Premier League, IPL 2012, is set to begin from 4th April 2012 at Chennai in MA Chidambaram stadium. The inaugural match will be played between the previous defending champion Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and the Mumbai Indians (MI). This time there will be nine franchisee teams which will be participating in the tournament and they will be playing at nine venues.

There will be only nine of them to be playing this edition as Kochi Tuskers Kerala has been left out from the tournament. It is known that the reason for non-inclusion of Kochi Tuskers in DLF Indian Premiere League 2012 is because of issues related to nonpayment. The participating teams are divided into two groups and each team will be playing with eight others in both home and away matches. The IPL 5 auctions for players by the Board Of Control For Cricket In India will commence from 4th February 2012. The players of the left out team Kochi Tuskers Kerala will also be available for it and the squad of each team can now accommodate 33 players.

The IPL 5 dates are announced and the same can now be downloaded as a printable pdf document from the links given below. This downloadable IPL 2012 schedule is being prepared by RootsBD.com in a very interesting format which resembles like a calender showing the details of the date and time of various matches to be played by the participating franchise teams. We would also like to mention that there will be a total of 76 matches to be played and this 5th edition will extend to a long 54 day event. The finals will be played at the same venue as that of the inaugural match i.e. MA Chidambaram stadium (also known as Chepauk stadium) between the winner of Qualifier 1 and Qualifier 2.